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Survey for those rejected... might give some insight into how close to the cut teams got. 1. How many questions did YC ask your team? 2. How many views did yo

by fhub 17y ago

Survey for those rejected... might give some insight into how close to the cut teams got. 1. How many questions did YC ask your team? 2. How many views did you get on your video? 3. How many unique visits to your prototype from YC? 4. How many hours before the rejection email did they last visit your site? Ours: 1. 2 questions 2. 3 or 4 video views 3. 3 prototype visits I think 4. 2.5 hours

kareemm 17y ago
1. 0 questions 2. 7 views 3. we didn't send them a prototype 4. no idea
freshfunk 17y ago
I had 0 questions so consider yourself loved. :)
ww520 17y ago
1. 0 2. 0 (well, no video) 3. 0 (looking for ip from ycombinator.com) 4. 0 Somehow I'm kind of relieved that I got rejected, as the real fund raising process is kind of distracting the building of the product and business. I sort of used the YC deadline as an external event to set milestone for finishing up the website, which was mostly done now.
- fhub 17y ago
  I hear you... I burnt out in the weeks leading up to the YC deadline. Then the 2 weeks between my submission and rejection I felt like I was in limbo. I'm looking forward to getting my head down and focusing on my product. Don't skimp on the video next time... Its the one external thing PG says he'll (definately) look at. If they like your vid, they'll probably visit your site. I put links on the vid page to my site, I'd have to check my logs to see if they clicked them from there.
  - ww520 17y ago
    Well, I looked hideous in video. :) Besides, building the product and business is priority number one, not the funding process.
rubyrescue 17y ago
0 questions/12 video views/unknown prototype/unknown but video was watched today
unignorant 17y ago
We had something like: 1) 0 ; 2) at least 3 ; 3) 3 (we think) ; 4) unclear
atiw 17y ago
1. 1 2. I am a little bummed about this, I have 27 views on my youtube demo, and my only friend who knows about the demo says he saw it some 3-4 times max. Considering I might have clicked some 7-8 times that I checked to see it. It feels like YC def watched my demo more than once. Not sure who many. 27-4-8 = 14. That sounds a lot...What happened ? 3. didn't really open the prototype yet. 4. not sure. Anyways, I wanted to sell this to MS / Google, or make it bootstrapped and keep the profits myself. Only thing that kind of got me a little too hopeful is seeing a question from Rtm. Well, other ways it is then.

by fhub 17y ago

kareemm 17y ago

1. 0 questions 2. 7 views 3. we didn't send them a prototype 4. no idea

freshfunk 17y ago

I had 0 questions so consider yourself loved. :)

ww520 17y ago

1. 0 2. 0 (well, no video) 3. 0 (looking for ip from ycombinator.com) 4. 0 Somehow I'm kind of relieved that I got rejected, as the real fund raising process is kind of distracting the building of the product and business. I sort of used the YC deadline as an external event to set milestone for finishing up the website, which was mostly done now.

fhub 17y ago
I hear you... I burnt out in the weeks leading up to the YC deadline. Then the 2 weeks between my submission and rejection I felt like I was in limbo. I'm looking forward to getting my head down and focusing on my product. Don't skimp on the video next time... Its the one external thing PG says he'll (definately) look at. If they like your vid, they'll probably visit your site. I put links on the vid page to my site, I'd have to check my logs to see if they clicked them from there.
- ww520 17y ago
  Well, I looked hideous in video. :) Besides, building the product and business is priority number one, not the funding process.

rubyrescue 17y ago

0 questions/12 video views/unknown prototype/unknown but video was watched today

unignorant 17y ago

We had something like: 1) 0 ; 2) at least 3 ; 3) 3 (we think) ; 4) unclear

atiw 17y ago

1. 1 2. I am a little bummed about this, I have 27 views on my youtube demo, and my only friend who knows about the demo says he saw it some 3-4 times max. Considering I might have clicked some 7-8 times that I checked to see it. It feels like YC def watched my demo more than once. Not sure who many. 27-4-8 = 14. That sounds a lot...What happened ? 3. didn't really open the prototype yet. 4. not sure. Anyways, I wanted to sell this to MS / Google, or make it bootstrapped and keep the profits myself. Only thing that kind of got me a little too hopeful is seeing a question from Rtm. Well, other ways it is then.